Grade 5 • Week of June 1 - June 5 • Science

Overview

Last week for science you analyzed evidence left by an animal. You looked closely at an owl image of science and engineering practices chart pellet and thought about what the pellet could tell you.

This week for science, you are going to obtain information about another way scientists study animals and where they live - using FOOD CHAINS and FOOD WEBS.

Remember that anytime you are at home you can ask questions, make observations, or use evidence to explain your thinking. You can use the practices of a scientist or engineer anytime of the day!

Task

STEP 1.

find Find your home Content Journal and something to write with.

STEP 2.

Write Write the date on the next empty page of the science section of your journal.

STEP 3.

draw Divide the page in your journal into four(4) sections, by drawing one line image of sample student journal chart up-and-down and one line across the middle.

STEP 4.

Write Write a label for each section:

Producers
Consumers
Decomposers
Food Chain

STEP 5.

watch Watch the recording of a few pages of the Capstone Interactive eBook Food Chains and Webs as an introduction to food chains.

write Don't forget to write or draw notes in the chart you created in your journal!

You can pause and rewind the video to listen to parts again, as needed.

STEP 6.

watch Watch the Crash Course Kids video, "Fabulous Food Chains."

write Don't forget to write or draw notes in the chart you created in your journal!

You can pause and rewind the video to listen to parts again, as needed.

Last week, you looked at evidence of how an owl and a rodent, like a mouse or vole, are connected.

This week, we will think about how energy connects all living things.

Remember, all living things use the energy in their food to stay alive.

STEP 7.

draw On the next page in your journal, start to draw a model by showing an owl and a small rodent, like a mouse or vole.

image of sample science journal entry

STEP 8.

think Based on what you watched in the introduction videos above, is what you drew a full food chain?

think Where does the rodent gets its energy?

draw Add to the food chain model in your journal.

image of sample science journal entry

STEP 9.

Write Label your model with the terms

Producer
Consumer

image of sample science journal entry

STEP 10.

Watch the recording of a section of the PebbleGo Next article "Food Webs" as an introduction to food webs.

STEP 11.

watch Watch the Crash Course Kids Video "Home Sweet Habitat" to hear more about food webs.

STEP 12.

Let's turn our owl food chain into a food web.

In one of the following ways, you will show a food web that includes an owl and at least one type of rodent.

You can:

Write a paragraph describing the food web.
Draw and label a food web in your journal.
Use Wixie to create a digital model.
Use toys or other items collected from around your home to create a model. Don't forget to take a picture so you can share your work.

STEP 13.

think Think about the following:

How are all of the members of the food web connected? What happens if one animal or plant is somehow removed from the food web? How will this affect the rest of the living things in the food web?
Why do you think it is important for a scientist to look at food webs, and not just food chains? How are both helpful when studying the biosphere in an ecosystem?

You will explore more about the impacts on an ecosystem next week.

This week you worked as a student scientist to obtain information from a variety of online sources. You used this information to create model of a food chain and a food web.

Models help you to communicate what you have learned.

SHARE IT! Keep your Content Journal with you at our next virtual check-in. You might choose to share your work.

Resources

Science Word / Everyday Word (with explanation)

A food chain is a model to look at the flow of energy between living things, identifying who eats what in a habitat.
A food web is more complex than a food chain. Food webs give much more detail about what happens in nature. Animals don’t usually eat just one thing, as is shown in a food chain. A barn owl, for example, eats mice, shrews, voles, and other animals. In a food chain, it would only show that the barn owl ate one of the animals, not all three.

You can read the PebbleGo Next article Food Chains.
- You can select the purple and white speaker symbol in PebbleGo Next to have the words read aloud to you.
- If the link above does not work, you can access the article through the MackinVIA database PebbleGo Next > Science > Life Science > Life in an Ecosystem > Food Chains and Webs
You can read all of the PebbleGo Next article Food Webs.
- You can select the purple and white speaker symbol in PebbleGo Next to have the words read aloud to you.
- If the link above does not work, you can access the article through the MackinVIA database PebbleGo Next > Science > Life Science > Life in an Ecosystem > Food Chains and Webs

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Want to Learn More? (optional)

The MackinVIA database Capstone Interactive eBooks has many resources about food chains. You can read:

The books can be read aloud by selecting the Audio button at the bottom of the screen
If the above links to the Capstone Interactive ebooks do not work, you can get to them through MackinVIA databases. Select the green open now button for "Capstone Interactive eBooks - School Closure" and search the titles.

You can use the MackinVIA database, Lightbox Grades 3-5, to learn more about the following topics

If the above links to the Lightbox Grades 3-5 ebooks do not work, you can get to them through MackinVIA databases. Select the green open now button for "Lightbox Grades 3-5" and search the titles

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